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“After you have committed to exercising each day, you can enjoy the new muscle mass that is Spiritually created by faith in your workouts, choices, goals, and studies with God.”~Jon Barnes

Show

When you show up each day to embrace the quality time with God, your heart will beat to His drum and exercising routines that are designed by the Master of All Things to strengthen, sustain, and encourage your physical and spiritual needs.He is The Best Trainer to keep you focused and on task!Ask God to show you your personalized schedule and goals for your life, mind, body, heart, and purpose.Be Patient!

Do

Do, practice, and share the new skills God teaches you after you have mastered the new methods.You will get plenty of practice and test to show your proficiency.Improvement is a daily, ongoing task, as God knows and watches your every move, thought, and assignment.However, you can not give something that you do not have or learned.Possess and bless others with what God has taught you.

Feel

Notice how much better you feel and how much more clean and clear your life becomes, when you obey God, no matter what your job functions are.Your place in God’s plan is great with constant effort.When you have worked to your potential, God honors your honest and steady commitment to your faith, improvement, love, and ability to change.

Today’s Question

After you study and exercise with God each day, can you see the improvements and changes in your life, like others can?

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Psalm 5

For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by the flute.

“Reach and embrace your adjustments and improvements with God’s standards so that you connect with a variety of people and shining your holy light of truth from your biblically inspired lifestyle.” ~ Jon Barnes

Consistent

Living with consistent standards from God and His Bible Stories helps us to understand faith, belief, fairness, and equity in copying God’s lifestyle. We naturally and consistently grow daily in Him as we study, read, pray, reach, and embrace God’s plans for our lives, while still being content. When the appropriate changes and new orders arrive, we are delighted that God gives us plans for our future with amazing outcomes and blessings to all the people we meet. We consistently reap what we sow and your fruit is always Good by following God’s farming techniques.

Reach

Reach for your dreams and goals in the Lord as you plan, prepare, and pray your way into thanksgiving, love, and hope with your work for God. Work is not always easy, but it is easy to stay on track when your focus is what God wants and not what you want. Reach to understand that wanting what God wants gives you the winning hand in your efforts.Losing with character, dignity, grace, and honesty is also a win in God’s Book. You learn a lot by losing, reaching, trying, and repeating tests until you pass them. Teach yourself to retake your test to pass it and learn from your mistakes.

Embrace

Embrace what it takes to endure your race by listening to God the first time to cross the permanent finish line. Stop trying to reach for the devil, running in the opposite direction with your own ideas of pride, lust, and greedy ambitions. See the big picture of help, hopes, and honor within your choices. Stand firm in your conviction for God and trust His Will for your life. Relax as you reach for eternity, growing in God’s Grace.

Today’s Question

Did you reach and embrace your destiny with God?

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Numbers 24 NLT

24 By now Balaam realized that the Lord was determined to bless Israel, so he did not resort to divination as before. Instead, he turned and looked out toward the wilderness,2 where he saw the people of Israel camped, tribe by tribe. Then the Spirit of God came upon him,3 and this is the message he delivered:

“This is the message of Balaam son of Beor,the message of the man whose eyes see clearly,4 the message of one who hears the words of God,who sees a vision from the Almighty,who bows down with eyes wide open:5 How beautiful are your tents, O Jacob;how lovely are your homes, O Israel!6 They spread before me like palm groves,[a]like gardens by the riverside.They are like tall trees planted by the Lord,like cedars beside the waters.7 Water will flow from their buckets;their offspring have all they need.Their king will be greater than Agag;their kingdom will be exalted.8 God brought them out of Egypt;for them he is as strong as a wild ox.He devours all the nations that oppose him,breaking their bones in pieces,shooting them with arrows.9 Like a lion, Israel crouches and lies down;like a lioness, who dares to arouse her?Blessed is everyone who blesses you, O Israel,and cursed is everyone who curses you.”

10 King Balak flew into a rage against Balaam. He angrily clapped his hands and shouted, “I called you to curse my enemies! Instead, you have blessed them three times.11 Now get out of here! Go back home! I promised to reward you richly, but the Lord has kept you from your reward.”

12 Balaam told Balak, “Don’t you remember what I told your messengers? I said,13 ‘Even if Balak were to give me his palace filled with silver and gold, I would be powerless to do anything against the will of the Lord.’ I told you that I could say only what the Lord says!14 Now I am returning to my own people. But first let me tell you what the Israelites will do to your people in the future.”

Balaam’s Final Messages

15 This is the message Balaam delivered:

“This is the message of Balaam son of Beor,the message of the man whose eyes see clearly,16 the message of one who hears the words of God,who has knowledge from the Most High,who sees a vision from the Almighty,who bows down with eyes wide open:17 I see him, but not here and now.I perceive him, but far in the distant future.A star will rise from Jacob;a scepter will emerge from Israel.It will crush the heads of Moab’s people,cracking the skulls[b] of the people of Sheth.18 Edom will be taken over,and Seir, its enemy, will be conquered,while Israel marches on in triumph.19 A ruler will rise in Jacobwho will destroy the survivors of Ir.”

20 Then Balaam looked over toward the people of Amalek and delivered this message:

“Amalek was the greatest of nations,but its destiny is destruction!”

21 Then he looked over toward the Kenites and delivered this message:

“Your home is secure;your nest is set in the rocks.22 But the Kenites will be destroyedwhen Assyria[c] takes you captive.”

23 Balaam concluded his messages by saying:

“Alas, who can surviveunless God has willed it?24 Ships will come from the coasts of Cyprus[d];they will oppress Assyria and afflict Eber,but they, too, will be utterly destroyed.”

25 Then Balaam left and returned home, and Balak also went on his way.

“Say you will do the many good things that God has put into your heart, program them into your mind and make these important goals happen with your hands.” ~ Jon Barnes

I hear

I hear people talk about things and copy bad information that they hear on TV, News, or from other people. When we don’t hear the standard practiced procedures from the good sources and people we love in our lives, we choose not to hear about the good things God wants us to do. Instead, we hear what we want to hear, which are the fake stories that are full of lies, deception, and confusion.

I See

I see people watch things and copy bad information that they see on TV, News, or from other people. When we don’t see the standard practiced procedures from the good sources and people we love in our lives, we don’t see the good things that God would like for us to copy and improve upon. Instead, we see what we want and listen to the fake information that clouds our judgment.

I Do

I hear and see few people doing the listening, reading, praying, and the amount of work that is required in making good choices from the many options God gives us. Many fall prey to the evil that they hear and see, which is a negative influence that makes them do wicked things, doing the opposite of what God Commands. You will do as you say, see, hear, and think with God.

Today’s Question

Are you living for Christ or are you saying something else?

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Leviticus 6

Sins Requiring a Guilt Offering

6 [a]Then the Lord said to Moses,2 “Suppose one of you sins against your associate and is unfaithful to the Lord. Suppose you cheat in a deal involving a security deposit, or you steal or commit fraud,3 or you find lost property and lie about it, or you lie while swearing to tell the truth, or you commit any other such sin.4 If you have sinned in any of these ways, you are guilty. You must give back whatever you stole, or the money you took by extortion, or the security deposit, or the lost property you found,5 or anything obtained by swearing falsely. You must make restitution by paying the full price plus an additional 20 percent to the person you have harmed. On the same day you must present a guilt offering.6 As a guilt offering to the Lord, you must bring to the priest your own ram with no defects, or you may buy one of equal value.7 Through this process, the priest will purify you before the Lord, making you right with him,[b] and you will be forgiven for any of these sins you have committed.”

Further Instructions for the Burnt Offering

8 [c]Then the Lord said to Moses,9 “Give Aaron and his sons the following instructions regarding the burnt offering. The burnt offering must be left on top of the altar until the next morning, and the fire on the altar must be kept burning all night.10 In the morning, after the priest on duty has put on his official linen clothing and linen undergarments, he must clean out the ashes of the burnt offering and put them beside the altar.11 Then he must take off these garments, change back into his regular clothes, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a place that is ceremonially clean.12 Meanwhile, the fire on the altar must be kept burning; it must never go out. Each morning the priest will add fresh wood to the fire and arrange the burnt offering on it. He will then burn the fat of the peace offerings on it.13 Remember, the fire must be kept burning on the altar at all times. It must never go out.

Further Instructions for the Grain Offering

14 “These are the instructions regarding the grain offering. Aaron’s sons must present this offering to the Lord in front of the altar.15 The priest on duty will take from the grain offering a handful of the choice flour moistened with olive oil, together with all the frankincense. He will burn this representative portion on the altar as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.16 Aaron and his sons may eat the rest of the flour, but it must be baked without yeast and eaten in a sacred place within the courtyard of the Tabernacle.[d]17 Remember, it must never be prepared with yeast. I have given it to the priests as their share of the special gifts presented to me. Like the sin offering and the guilt offering, it is most holy.18 Any of Aaron’s male descendants may eat from the special gifts presented to the Lord. This is their permanent right from generation to generation. Anyone or anything that touches these offerings will become holy.”

Procedures for the Ordination Offering

19 Then the Lord said to Moses,20 “On the day Aaron and his sons are anointed, they must present to the Lord the standard grain offering of two quarts[e] of choice flour, half to be offered in the morning and half to be offered in the evening.21 It must be carefully mixed with olive oil and cooked on a griddle. Then slice[f] this grain offering and present it as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.22 In each generation, the high priest[g] who succeeds Aaron must prepare this same offering. It belongs to the Lord and must be burned up completely. This is a permanent law.23 All such grain offerings of a priest must be burned up entirely. None of it may be eaten.”

Further Instructions for the Sin Offering

24 Then the Lord said to Moses,25 “Give Aaron and his sons the following instructions regarding the sin offering. The animal given as an offering for sin is a most holy offering, and it must be slaughtered in the Lord’s presence at the place where the burnt offerings are slaughtered.26 The priest who offers the sacrifice as a sin offering must eat his portion in a sacred place within the courtyard of the Tabernacle.27 Anyone or anything that touches the sacrificial meat will become holy. If any of the sacrificial blood spatters on a person’s clothing, the soiled garment must be washed in a sacred place.28 If a clay pot is used to boil the sacrificial meat, it must then be broken. If a bronze pot is used, it must be scoured and thoroughly rinsed with water.29 Any male from a priest’s family may eat from this offering; it is most holy.30 But the offering for sin may not be eaten if its blood was brought into the Tabernacle as an offering for purification[h] in the Holy Place. It must be completely burned with fire.

“Learn to use and take the negative things in life to fuel the positive things you will do so that you can avoid unnecessary mistakes as you perfect better ideas, communication skills, and work ethics.” ~ Jon Barnes

Switch

Turn on the light switch of your mind to analyze your own behavior, discipline, practices, and goals so that the work you do reflects the value you seek. Create the formula that works for you, write it down, perfect it, and maintain your growth and development. Turn on Good Habits and turn off Bad Habits with God’s Help!

OFF

It is too easy to become lazy, by turning off your mind and responsibilities with technology so you have to balance the physical world of God’s reality and movement with the convenience of cell phones, technology, access, and computers. Use the OFF or DELETE button to rid yourself of unwanted advances of ignorance and evil traps that are planted near your goals.

ON

Right On! Your good habits should stay programmed in your mind to stay on, which will help you to over ride the bad ones that may try to emerge in the future. Safety switches are in place if you access them by communicating with God, your parents, and other wise people who are full of love. Good answers are hard to find from bad people, so that’s how you learn what not to do! Don’t listen to the devil, obey God!

Today’s Question

Do you use your time wisely to get the work done or are you just faking it with the lights turned off sitting in the dark?

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Leviticus 3

Procedures for the Peace Offering

3 “If you present an animal from the herd as a peace offering to the Lord, it may be a male or a female, but it must have no defects.2 Lay your hand on the animal’s head, and slaughter it at the entrance of the Tabernacle.[a] Then Aaron’s sons, the priests, will splatter its blood against all sides of the altar.3 The priest must present part of this peace offering as a special gift to the Lord. This includes all the fat around the internal organs,4 the two kidneys and the fat around them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver. These must be removed with the kidneys,5 and Aaron’s sons will burn them on top of the burnt offering on the wood burning on the altar. It is a special gift, a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

6 “If you present an animal from the flock as a peace offering to the Lord, it may be a male or a female, but it must have no defects.7 If you present a sheep as your offering, bring it to the Lord,8 lay your hand on its head, and slaughter it in front of the Tabernacle. Aaron’s sons will then splatter the sheep’s blood against all sides of the altar.9 The priest must present the fat of this peace offering as a special gift to the Lord. This includes the fat of the broad tail cut off near the backbone, all the fat around the internal organs,10 the two kidneys and the fat around them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver. These must be removed with the kidneys,11 and the priest will burn them on the altar. It is a special gift of food presented to the Lord.

12 “If you present a goat as your offering, bring it to the Lord,13 lay your hand on its head, and slaughter it in front of the Tabernacle. Aaron’s sons will then splatter the goat’s blood against all sides of the altar.14 The priest must present part of this offering as a special gift to the Lord. This includes all the fat around the internal organs,15 the two kidneys and the fat around them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver. These must be removed with the kidneys,16 and the priest will burn them on the altar. It is a special gift of food, a pleasing aroma to the Lord. All the fat belongs to the Lord.

17 “You must never eat any fat or blood. This is a permanent law for you, and it must be observed from generation to generation, wherever you live.”

“Sit down and look at your choices, blocking out all the voices of distraction, so that you can clearly see God’s plan of good work in action for your life.” ~ Jon Barnes

Get Up

Putting your faith into action, brings a type of satisfaction of love from God that is unique. That same love is then poured into and onto all that you do, think, believe, or seek. Get up each day and pray what you do and say, will help and make a special difference to someone. You can tell with a hug or a smile from the face of the people who are in your space, that God’s love lifted us up.

The Spread

Move into your direction and operation into your section, then connect to spread it all around. Sitting in front of me, my work is completely based on my forward steps of kindness and God’s sensitivity. Never with a regret, I love with the time my life has spent, as I continue to spread within the path of God. The days grow shorter as I get my life in order to stay focused on my task, in God’s plan.

Lay Down

Lay down your ideas and God will reveal the way to make them into a career, which points to His kingdom every day. In truth and honor you will go farther with God’s love and grace placed in all your ways. Lay down your thoughts and count the cost to sit, lay, spread, and stand for God. God knows the count and all other amounts paid for the cost of today.

Today’s Question

What is the calculation of your destination, up or down?

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Revelation 13

The Beast out of the Sea

13 The dragon[a] stood on the shore of the sea. And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name.2 The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority.3 One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast.4 People worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, “Who is like the beast? Who can wage war against it?”

5 The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months.6 It opened its mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven.7 It was given power to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them. And it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation.8 All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world.[b]

9 Whoever has ears, let them hear.

10 “If anyone is to go into captivity,into captivity they will go.If anyone is to be killed[c] with the sword,with the sword they will be killed.”[d]

This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of God’s people.

The Beast out of the Earth

11 Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon.12 It exercised all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed.13 And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people.14 Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth. It ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.15 The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads,17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.

18 This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man.[e] That number is 666.

“When You take advantage of people, depending on someone else to feed you, because you failed to commit, developing your dreams, goals, and assignments of Good Works that you are destined to accomplish; you have been taken Advantage of by the devil.”

~ Jon Barnes

No Excuses

I had to look myself in the mirror and become the Best Dad in the World for my Kids! I had to look at myself in the mirror and become the Best Husband for my Wife! I had to look myself in the mirror and become the Best Teacher for my Students! I had to look at myself in the mirror and become the Best Manager of my Time. I had to look in the mirror and become the Best Solution to my Problems, All with God’s Speed and Help!

No Dreams

When you refuse to obey God, your life and dreams become meaningless because you enjoy enslaving, hurting, and destroying the lives of other people with your words, works, thoughts, actions, and your lies. Your lust for sin is so great that you would sacrifice your body, time, money, love, production, abilities, mind, and soul to work for the devil.

You chose to work for the devil because you do not work for God! As a result, you and the devil together take advantage of all of God’s Good Processes, resources and People to Plot your own Pretty, Pity, Party’s Pleasure Palace of Pollution, Promoting Propaganda of Pure chaos in every Path and Place you Proceed to Position yourself in and through.

No Position

You have no position with God because you are not His and He doesn’t know or recognize you as a Child of God! It is better to be a Humble, God Fearing, rich or poor, honest worker, who loves God and go to heaven with a Position with Christ than to live like a Poor or Rich King on Earth as a servant of the devil, living a lie, creating problems, and hurting people. Your choice and position is clear to God and God alone will have No Position for evil people in His Kingdom.

No Joke

Today’s Question

Is your life, job, and family a Joke to you or do you walk with God and His Blessings?

Mark 12New International Version (NIV)

The Parable of the Tenants

12 Jesus then began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the winepress and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place.2 At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.3 But they seized him, beat him and sent him away empty-handed.4 Then he sent another servant to them; they struck this man on the head and treated him shamefully.5 He sent still another, and that one they killed. He sent many others; some of them they beat, others they killed.

6 “He had one left to send, a son, whom he loved. He sent him last of all, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

7 “But the tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’8 So they took him and killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard.

9 “What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others.10 Haven’t you read this passage of Scripture:

“‘The stone the builders rejectedhas become the cornerstone;11 the Lord has done this,and it is marvelous in our eyes’[a]?”

12 Then the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders looked for a way to arrest him because they knew he had spoken the parable against them. But they were afraid of the crowd; so they left him and went away.

Paying the Imperial Tax to Caesar

13 Later they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Jesus to catch him in his words.14 They came to him and said, “Teacher, we know that you are a man of integrity. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are; but you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right to pay the imperial tax[b] to Caesar or not?15 Should we pay or shouldn’t we?”

But Jesus knew their hypocrisy. “Why are you trying to trap me?” he asked. “Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.”16 They brought the coin, and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”

“Caesar’s,” they replied.

17 Then Jesus said to them, “Give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.”

And they were amazed at him.

Marriage at the Resurrection

18 Then the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question.19 “Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.20 Now there were seven brothers. The first one married and died without leaving any children.21 The second one married the widow, but he also died, leaving no child. It was the same with the third.22 In fact, none of the seven left any children. Last of all, the woman died too.23 At the resurrection[c] whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?”

24 Jesus replied, “Are you not in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?25 When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.26 Now about the dead rising—have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the account of the burning bush, how God said to him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’[d]?27 He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!”

The Greatest Commandment

28 One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”

29 “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.[e]30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’[f]31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[g] There is no commandment greater than these.”

32 “Well said, teacher,” the man replied. “You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but him.33 To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

34 When Jesus saw that he had answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And from then on no one dared ask him any more questions.

Whose Son Is the Messiah?

35 While Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, he asked, “Why do the teachers of the law say that the Messiah is the son of David?36 David himself, speaking by the Holy Spirit, declared:

“‘The Lord said to my Lord:“Sit at my right handuntil I put your enemiesunder your feet.”’[h]

37 David himself calls him ‘Lord.’ How then can he be his son?”

The large crowd listened to him with delight.

Warning Against the Teachers of the Law

38 As he taught, Jesus said, “Watch out for the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and be greeted with respect in the marketplaces,39 and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets.40 They devour widows’ houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will be punished most severely.”

The Widow’s Offering

41 Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts.42 But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents.

43 Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others.44 They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.”